Tropescilloscope: Character Development

A character changes over the course of a narrative. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes My Beloved Smother Gender Flip Action Girl Russian Films Better to Die than Be Killed Pragmatic Adaptation Deal with the Devil Grievous Bottley Harm Hong Kong Films Mystery and Detective Films Domestic Abuse The Reveal Bury Your Gays Homage Leitmotif Artistic License – Military Translation Convention The Quiet One Determinator aka: The Determinator Nice Hat Improbable Weapon User Wretched Hive Authority Equals Asskicking Superhero Peek-a-Boo Corpse Dull Surprise Foreshadowing Poor Communication Kills Killed Mid-Sentence In the Back Gory Discretion Shot Casting Gag Artistic License – Physics Retcon Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Fantastic Racism Villain with Good Publicity Punny Name Evil vs. Evil Hate Sink Chiaroscuro Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? No Name Given This Is Gonna Suck Make It Look Like an Accident Even Evil Has Loved Ones folderlabel Fantasy Films Insane Troll Logic I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Black and Gray Morality Together in Death Lock and Load Montage No Celebrities Were Harmed Almost Kiss Never Found the Body Double Entendre Unusually Uninteresting Sight Adults Are Useless Shower Scene Tap on the Head Demoted to Extra Pretty in Mink Television Movie Index Advertised Extra Conspicuous CG Only Sane Man Decoy Protagonist Fanservice Extra Humiliation Conga Refuge in Audacity Epic Movie Well-Intentioned Extremist Music Stories Implacable Man Rich Bitch Pretty Little Headshots The Musical Did Not Get the Girl Reality Is Unrealistic "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The Vamp Belligerent Sexual Tension You Killed My Father Hypocrite Retired Badass Kubrick Stare Those Two Bad Guys Distracted by the Sexy Morality Pet There Is No Kill Like Overkill The '60s Funny Background Event Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Mood Whiplash B-Movie Slap-Slap-Kiss Bare Your Midriff What You Are in the Dark Even Evil Has Standards Sports Stories Dramedy Vitriolic Best Buds Establishing Character Moment Mr. Exposition Market-Based Title Extreme Doormat Love at First Sight Our Zombies Are Different MacGuffin Anyone Can Die Male Gaze Drowning My Sorrows Only a Flesh Wound All There in the Manual Damsel in Distress Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Horror Films Military and Warfare Films Red Shirt Badass in a Nice Suit Pragmatic Villainy Canon Foreigner In Name Only Age Lift Once More, with Clarity! Adaptation Name Change Apocalypse How Hell Is That Noise Romantic False Lead Fat Bastard Frame-Up Calling the Old Man Out Laughing Mad Central Theme Film Noir It Will Never Catch On Shut Up, Hannibal! Major Injury Underreaction Married to the Job Evil Sounds Deep Reasonable Authority Figure Alpha Bitch Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Corpsing Riddle for the Ages Aluminum Christmas Trees Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Wounded Gazelle Gambit Defiant to the End Tempting Fate Catch-Phrase Tranquil Fury Award-Bait Song Ambiguous Ending Ambiguous Disorder Blood Knight Death of a Child Armor-Piercing Question Black Best Friend Fish out of Water Rasputinian Death Chewing the Scenery Villain Protagonist True Companions Sadistic Choice Historical Hero Upgrade Death Seeker Didn't Think This Through Psychological Thriller All There in the Script Red Oni, Blue Oni Spiritual Successor Determinator Cool Old Guy Storming the Castle Kids Are Cruel Mercy Kill Defrosting Ice Queen Bad Boss The Bully French Films I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Dutch Angle Fourth Date Marriage Freudian Excuse Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene After the End Destination Defenestration Ship Tease No-Sell Big-Bad Ensemble Author Avatar No Antagonist Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Instant Death Bullet Hair-Trigger Temper Mundane Made Awesome The '70s More Dakka Manly Tears Adaptation Dye-Job NO INDOOR VOICE Fatal Flaw Shirtless Scene Artistic License – Biology Setting Update Affectionate Parody Recycled IN SPACE! Genre Savvy Funny Foreigner Getting Crap Past the Radar Friend to All Children Victoria's Secret Compartment Your Cheating Heart Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Evil-Detecting Dog Put on a Bus Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Creepy Child Neck Lift Curb-Stomp Battle Five-Man Band Obfuscating Stupidity Creator Cameo Deliberately Monochrome Mad Scientist "Awesome McCool" Name Amusing Injuries Flipping the Bird Unusual Euphemism Humans Are Bastards Malevolent Masked Men Freeze-Frame Bonus The Sociopath Police Brutality Demonic Possession Title Drop Off-into-the-Distance Ending Love Triangle Large Ham Diabolus ex Machina Heel Realization Mighty Whitey Expy Important Haircut Call-Back Dying Moment of Awesome Air-Vent Passageway Scenery Porn Combat Pragmatist Eureka Moment The Faceless Vomit Indiscretion Shot Cowboy Cop Badass Grandpa Rule of Cool Bad "Bad Acting" Broken Aesop Femme Fatale Actor Allusion Based on a True Story No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Danny Peary Cult Movies List Adaptational Attractiveness Improbable Aiming Skills My God, What Have I Done? Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Kill 'em All Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Chessmaster Crapsack World Too Dumb to Live Foregone Conclusion Guns Akimbo Expository Hairstyle Change Epic Fail The Alcoholic Slasher Smile Only in It for the Money Same Language Dub Big Applesauce Becoming the Mask Stealth Pun Artistic License – Gun Safety Villain Opening Scene Anguished Declaration of Love Offscreen Teleportation Token Minority The Smurfette Principle The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Would Hurt a Child Developing Doomed Characters Random Events Plot Only Known by Their Nickname Good Is Not Nice Suspiciously Specific Denial The Smart Guy Idiot Ball Adaptation Distillation Those Wacky Nazis It Can Think Woman in White Early Installment Weirdness Martial Arts Movie Celebrity Paradox Twist Ending Noodle Incident Gratuitous English Show Within a Show Only One Name Exactly What It Says on the Tin Every Car Is a Pinto All Men Are Perverts Sinister Minister Psycho for Hire Continuity Nod Reality Ensues Eyepatch of Power Antagonist Title Race Against the Clock Fake Shemp Not What It Looks Like Chase Scene Not Using the "Z" Word Bond One-Liner Action Survivor Woman Scorned Not Even Bothering with the Accent Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Composite Character Beta Couple '80s Hair Stealth Hi/Bye Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies A Minor Kidroduction Sexy Discretion Shot The Big Guy Vampire Fiction Cool Guns Animal Motifs Amoral Attorney Obviously Evil Laser-Guided Karma Abusive Parents Dropped a Bridge on Him Evil Brit The Starscream Fanservice Death by Sex Cassandra Truth Knife Nut Meet Cute Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Mafia The X of Y Accidental Murder Extremely Short Timespan Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Re-Cut Dark Action Girl Lampshade Hanging Butt-Monkey Left the Background Music On Dark Reprise The Hero Daddy's Girl Match Cut Lighter and Softer The Bad Guy Wins Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Villain Ball Big Bad Animated Credits Opening Insult Backfire Back from the Dead The Atoner Parental Neglect No Ending Unresolved Sexual Tension Take a Third Option Off with His Head! Dwindling Party Blatant Lies Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Adult Fear Creative Closing Credits Mexican Standoff Logo Joke World of Ham Madness Mantra Crucified Hero Shot Retirony For the Evulz Ascended Extra Hope Spot Bar Brawl The Dog Bites Back Took a Level in Jerkass Children Are Innocent Badass Bookworm Brother–Sister Incest O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Load Ironic Echo Aside Glance Facial Horror Hypocritical Humor Loads and Loads of Characters Australian Movies Light Is Not Good Cain and Abel British Films Drugs Are Bad Bavarian Fire Drill Broken Pedestal Early-Bird Cameo Offscreen Moment of Awesome Truth in Television Black Comedy Hollywood Law Cluster F-Bomb Insistent Terminology BFG Shown Their Work For Want of a Nail Beard of Evil Bullying a Dragon Get Out! Badass Boast Villainous Breakdown Eiffel Tower Effect Whole Plot Reference Dirty Cop Overly Long Gag Never My Fault Jump Scare One-Man Army A Date with Rosie Palms Here We Go Again! The Ghost Crazy Jealous Guy Actually Pretty Funny Character Development Evil Counterpart Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Mugging the Monster Death by Adaptation Rape as Drama Cat Scare Face–Heel Turn Agony of the Feet I'm a Humanitarian Contrived Coincidence Smug Snake Meaningful Name Let's Get Dangerous! Faking the Dead Works Set in World War II Dogged Nice Guy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Everyone Has Standards Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Ambiguously Gay Unwitting Instigator of Doom Serious Business Camp Gay Handicapped Badass Credits Gag Due to the Dead Enemy Mine Mr. Fanservice What Happened to the Mouse? Interrupted Suicide Big Brother Instinct Ripped from the Headlines Animal Title Index Fatal Family Photo Empathic Environment Fate Worse than Death Paper-Thin Disguise Eye Scream Author Appeal Pay Evil unto Evil Brutal Honesty Daylight Horror The Dreaded Asshole Victim Gilligan Cut Accidental Misnaming Oh, Crap! Big Damn Heroes And I Must Scream Cool Car Jerkass Has a Point Evil Laugh Suddenly SHOUTING! Not So Stoic Abhorrent Admirer Small Name, Big Ego Dirty Old Man Crazy-Prepared Stuff Blowing Up La Résistance Playing Gertrude Pet the Dog Darkest Hour Kick the Son of a Bitch Parental Substitute Moment Killer The Cameo Rewatch Bonus Chekhov's Gunman Plot Hole Pimped-Out Dress Costume Porn Sequel Escalation Boom, Headshot! Irony Stalker with a Crush Dark and Troubled Past Men Are the Expendable Gender Man on Fire Death by Irony The '50s Older Than They Look Biopic Blackmail Affably Evil Undying Loyalty Rule of Funny Big Eater Alas, Poor Villain Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Lancer Romantic Comedy Scare Chord Last-Name Basis Heroes Want Redheads Non-Indicative Name The Oner Bittersweet Ending Anti-Villain Famous Last Words An Arm and a Leg Overprotective Dad Manic Pixie Dream Girl Running Gag Shell-Shocked Veteran Not So Different Film Series Big Fancy House Bond Villain Stupidity Comically Missing the Point Action Genre Exact Words Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Super Strength Sequel Hook Arranged Marriage Bald of Evil Be Careful What You Wish For Book-Ends Silent Movie Rousing Speech Adaptational Badass Revenge Shoot the Shaggy Dog Those Two Guys Eldritch Abomination Bland-Name Product Downer Ending Wrong Genre Savvy Training Montage Closed Circle Nice Guy Skewed Priorities Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Historical In-Joke Very Loosely Based on a True Story It's All About Me Made of Iron Auto Erotica Bound and Gagged My Greatest Failure Ungrateful Bastard Maybe Ever After Break the Cutie Captain Obvious May–December Romance Gone Horribly Right Meaningful Background Event Cool Old Lady Black Dude Dies First Psychopathic Manchild Wicked Cultured Parental Incest I Have Your Wife Beware the Nice Ones Gainax Ending Unreliable Narrator Bilingual Bonus Sir Swears-a-Lot The Great Depression An Aesop N-Word Privileges Taking the Bullet Neck Snap Bloody Hilarious Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Depraved Bisexual Attempted Rape Smoking Is Cool Big "NO!" Vomit Discretion Shot Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Star-Crossed Lovers The End... Or Is It? Heroic BSoD Adaptational Heroism Loophole Abuse Anachronic Order Really Gets Around Immune to Bullets Awesome, but Impractical Stepford Smiler Breaking the Fourth Wall Disproportionate Retribution Dramatic Irony The Stinger Totally Radical The Hero Dies Deadpan Snarker Fun with Acronyms Italian Films Naked People Are Funny The Dragon Protagonist Title Break the Haughty Karmic Death Jerkass The Cavalry Scenery Gorn Dressing as the Enemy Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Final Girl Face Death with Dignity Card-Carrying Villain Half the Man He Used to Be You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Public Domain Feature Films Easily Forgiven The Remake Failed a Spot Check Plucky Comic Relief Spell My Name with an "S" Department of Redundancy Department Does This Remind You of Anything? Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping I Did What I Had to Do Ghost Fiction From Nobody to Nightmare Missing Mom Needs Wiki Magic Love Happily Married Big Bad Duumvirate Coming-of-Age Story Cold-Blooded Torture Artistic License – Geography Captain Ersatz Adaptation Expansion Darker and Edgier Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Jerk Jock Film Noir Index Bolivian Army Ending Straight Gay Names to Run Away from Really Fast Word of God Chekhov's Gun Historical Villain Upgrade Took a Level in Badass Hero Antagonist Bloodier and Gorier Say My Name Bowdlerise Red Right Hand Anti-Hero Wham Shot Heterosexual Life-Partners Toplessness from the Back Redemption Equals Death Properly Paranoid Trailers Always Spoil Groin Attack Reality Has No Subtitles Canadian Movies Vacation Films Camera Abuse Race Lift Wham Line Thriller Genre Throwback Heroic Sacrifice Index of Film Westerns Never Trust a Trailer Brainless Beauty Obstructive Bureaucrat Soundtrack Dissonance Intergenerational Friendship Jitter Cam Action Prologue Artistic License – Law German Films Foil 20 Minutes into the Future Evil Plan Villain Song He Knows Too Much Arch-Enemy Mama Bear Beauty Is Never Tarnished Dramatic Gun Cock Rated M for Manly Guile Hero Henpecked Husband Deus ex Machina You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Suspiciously Similar Substitute Drives Like Crazy Rule of Three She's Got Legs Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Blood from the Mouth Artistic License – History The Voiceless Bring My Brown Pants Room Full of Crazy Christmas Movies Index Japanese Films Mistaken for Gay Gorn Adaptational Villainy Leaning on the Fourth Wall timeperiod The Lost Lenore Eagleland Serial Killer Mythology Gag One Steve Limit Silence Is Golden Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Parental Abandonment Naïve Newcomer And the Adventure Continues Intrepid Reporter It's Personal Broken Bird Country Matters And Starring Pyrrhic Victory Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Deliberate Values Dissonance Fingore Fainting Kill It with Fire Real Life Writes the Plot Hidden Depths The Film of the Book Hero of Another Story Evil Is Petty Male Frontal Nudity Adorkable Outrun the Fireball Bi the Way Four-Temperament Ensemble Arc Words The '80s Badass Normal Take That! The Place The Ace Driven to Suicide Line-of-Sight Name A God Am I Ass Shove Deconstruction Rule of Symbolism Slashed Throat Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Ax-Crazy Disappeared Dad Green-Eyed Monster Red Eyes, Take Warning Up to Eleven Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Dirty Coward Would Hit a Girl Evil Is Hammy Visual Pun Knight Templar Alliterative Name Historical-Domain Character Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Hoist by His Own Petard Sci-Fi Horror Manchild Novelization Throwing Your Sword Always Works Imagine Spot Meaningful Echo Fiery Redhead Mooks The '90s Gold Digger Curse Cut Short Narrator Faux Affably Evil The Chick Batman Gambit Not So Above It All What the Hell, Hero? Leave the Camera Running Black Comedy Rape Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Disney Death No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Spanner in the Works Disney Villain Death From Bad to Worse Dissonant Serenity Stock Footage Dual Wielding You Have Failed Me Dies Wide Open Bloodless Carnage Greater-Scope Villain The Brute Badass Longcoat Bottomless Magazines Cloudcuckoolander All for Nothing Redshirt Army Jerk with a Heart of Gold Sealed Evil in a Can Sassy Black Woman Babies Ever After Double-Meaning Title All Just a Dream Roaring Rampage of Revenge Red Herring Chekhov's Skill Punch-Clock Villain Manipulative Bastard Slasher Movie Anachronism Stew Framing Device Annoying Younger Sibling Horror Comedy Despair Event Horizon The Stoic Corrupt Corporate Executive "The Reason You Suck" Speech Tagline Disguised in Drag Stylistic Suck Fire-Forged Friends Our Vampires Are Different Posthumous Character He Who Fights Monsters Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Informed Ability Heel–Face Turn Zombie Stories The Mole Reckless Gun Usage Time Skip Brick Joke "Shaggy Dog" Story Bait-and-Switch Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Un-Reveal Soft Glass I Need a Freaking Drink Worthy Opponent Your Head A-Splode Spared by the Adaptation Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Motor Mouth Precision F-Strike Improvised Weapon Taking You with Me Have a Gay Old Time A Father to His Men Death Glare The Alleged Car Berserk Button Self-Deprecation Ominous Latin Chanting Hooker with a Heart of Gold Science Fiction Films As Long as It Sounds Foreign Drill Sergeant Nasty Fan Disservice No OSHA Compliance Cruel and Unusual Death Catapult Nightmare Ms. Fanservice Mind Screw Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Dumb Blonde Shout-Out Spiteful Spit "Well Done, Son!" Guy Real Life One-Word Title Sole Survivor As You Know Pre-Mortem One-Liner In Medias Res Hollywood Darkness Yandere Body Horror Betty and Veronica Documentary Bunny-Ears Lawyer Nothing Is Scarier Shipper on Deck As the Good Book Says... Cool Shades Karma Houdini Sanity Slippage Car Fu Covers Always Lie All Girls Want Bad Boys A.I. Is a Crapshoot Dark Is Not Evil Politically Incorrect Villain Not Quite Dead She Cleans Up Nicely The Power of Love Adapted Out Grey and Gray Morality Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Video Credits The Stoner Sacrificial Lion Earn Your Happy Ending Monumental Damage As Himself Product Placement Police are Useless Honor Before Reason Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Call-Forward An Axe to Grind Cat Fight Scary Black Man The Casanova Kick the Dog Does Not Like Shoes The Ditz Flashback Made of Explodium Papa Wolf War Is Hell Genre Shift How We Got Here